Thank you to Hen Harrier Action for organising this successful event. There were lots of people and lots of them were long-lasting friends of Wild Justice (such as Gill Lewis, pictured above). We were wrong about one thing though - it did rain, quite a bit, early on, but then the sun came out.
You made a difference: Wild Justice donated £5000 to a legal challenge about use of herbicides in a forestry scheme in Scotland and a wider range of issues - click here - and we think that many of you chipped in too. The good news is that the grant and approval for this forestry scheme have been cancelled. We're sure that isn't the end of things (and damage to the site has already been done) but it is a very big step forward. The only way this would have been halted was through legal action. Thank you!
Disturbance on Thursley Common: we are still pressing Natural England for information on their role in permitting a film crew to use Thursley Common, Surrey, in the bird breeding season and at a site with other vulnerable wildlife. It feels a bit like nailing jelly to the wall but NE should be sending us more information in the next week. It can only raise suspicion when a public body takes so long to produce an account of what happened, and why, on land that it manages and has a duty to protect.
Petitions: the UK Parliament Petitions Committee is being reconstituted with new members and a new chair. Although this is party conference season we're sure there will soon be new petitions to put in front of you.
In the meantime please consider this petition:
- The Pesticide Action Network and others (including some very big NGOs) launched a petition calling for a ban on the use of harmful pesticides in urban areas some time ago. When we mentioned it to you in July the petition got a surge in signatures - thank you! You might have been on holiday when we last mentioned it, and we have people coming and going as subscribers all the time, so there may well be more of you who would be up for signing it now. The petition stands on nearly 18,500 signatures as we send out this newsletter - click here. We're sure that your support can make a lot of difference. 20,000+ signatures by this evening?
Money: you may have noticed that we have started two legal challenges recently - on overgazing of Dartmor and (with Badger Trust) the Badger cull, and yet we haven't asked you for any money to fund them. That's right, and we still aren't asking for donations but it is likely that we will in the not so distant future. We're grateful to you for your moral and financial support and we try not to ask for money until we know precisely what we will spend it on and how much we need. So, no ask from us again this newsletter.
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